Microsoft Interview Question for SDE-2s


Country: United States
Interview Type: In-Person




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Hi Koustav

Can you explain your algo?

- samwise.gamjee September 11, 2017 | Flag Reply
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I think this should work.

Go over all the digits of the binary number and keep a count of the number of 1's in the even place and the number of 1;'s in the odd space.

Finally the difference between the even place 1's and the odd place 1's is the remainder..

Please correct me if you have a valid situation where the logic fails

- Sayantan Chowdhury September 12, 2017 | Flag Reply
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I think this should work.

Go over all the digits one by one in the binary number given. As you scan the number, keep track of the count of even place 1's and odd place 1's.

Finally remainder will be odd count - even count. If -ve, remained is 3+ (-ve remainder)

- sayantanc85 September 12, 2017 | Flag Reply
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Time Complexity is O(n) where n is the length of input string.
	static boolean isDivisible(String input) {
                
                int noOfOnesAtOddPlace = 0;
                for(int index=0; index < input.length(); index++) {
                        if(index%2 == 0 && input.charAt(index) == '1') {
                                noOfOnesAtOddPlace--;
                        } else if(index%2 != 0 && input.charAt(index) == '1') {
                                noOfOnesAtOddPlace++;
                        }
                }
                
                return (noOfOnesAtOddPlace%3==0);
        }

- Kapil September 12, 2017 | Flag Reply
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boolean isDivisible(String input, int n) {
	
	int remainder = 0;
	int size = input.length();
	for(int index = size-1; index >=0; index--) {
		if(input.charAt(index) == '1') {
			remainder = (2*remainder + 1) %n;
		} else {
			remainder = (2*remainder) %n;
		}
	}

	if(remainder%n==0) {
		return true;
	} else {
		return false;
	}

}

- Kapil September 17, 2017 | Flag Reply
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geeksforgeeks.org/dfa-based-division/

- Kapil September 17, 2017 | Flag Reply
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#include<bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;
int main(){
	
string s;
 cin>>s;
 int len=s.length();
 // consider s[0] as msb and s[len-1] as lsb 
 
 int rem=0;
 for(int i=0;i<len;i++){
 	 if(s[i]=='0'){
 	 	rem=rem*2;
	  }else{
	  	rem=rem*2+1;
	  }
	  rem%=3;
	  
 }
  cout<<rem<<endl;
}

- deepdoc333 February 25, 2018 | Flag Reply
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public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
		int K = 3;
		System.out.println(isDivisibleByKInBase("1010100011", K, 2));
	}

	private static int isDivisibleByKInBase(String str, int K, int base) {
		char c[] = new StringBuilder(str).reverse().toString().toCharArray();
		int rem = 0;
		for (int i = 0; i < c.length; i++) {
			rem = ((((int) Math.pow(base, i) * Integer.parseInt("" + c[i])) % K) + rem) % K;
		}
		return rem;
	}

- koustav.adorable September 04, 2017 | Flag Reply


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